by David Todd | May 18, 2016 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, International Space Station, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz
The state Russian news agency TASS has reported that RSC Energia, the firm in charge of the building and operation of Soyuz spacecraft has declared that NASA has booked six more “seats” for its astronauts on Soyuz flights to the International Space...
by David Todd | Apr 9, 2016 | commercial launch services, ESA, History, International Space Station, NASA, Seradata News, SpaceX
Following its 2043 GMT launch from Cape Canaveral on 9 April 2015, a two-stage Falcon 9FT-R rocket successfully placed the Dragon CRS-8 cargo spacecraft into orbit for NASA on its way to the International Space Station (ISS). Aboard the craft was a new Bigelow...
by David Todd | Mar 31, 2016 | International Space Station, Launches, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz
The Progress MS-02/ISS-63P cargo craft was successfully sent on its way to dock with the International Space Station after its Soyuz 2-1a launch on 31 March 2016. The launch took place at 1624 GMT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. After a two...
by David Todd | Mar 21, 2016 | History, International Space Station, Launches, Russia, Soyuz, space station
At 2126 GMT on 18 March 2015, a Soyuz-FG launch vehicle successfully lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. Before the launch from Pad 1, Soyuz Commander and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka and...
by David Todd | Feb 22, 2016 | International Space Station, Satellites
At 1040 GMT on 19 February 2016, the Cygnus OA-4 (Deke Slayton 2) cargo craft was unberthed from the Interionational Space Station’s Unity node, having first been filed with refuse, by the Canadarm-2 robot arm.The spacecraft was then released fully into orbit...
by David Todd | Feb 4, 2016 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia
Two Russian cosmonauts, Yuri Malenchenko and Sergey Volkov ventured outside the International Space Station in their Russian Orlan space suits for a work schedule which including fitting new hand rails and a new space exposure experiment, recovering some space...
